Adolescent literacy

About this book

Extend literacy instruction through the middle and high school grades by outfitting classrooms with this binder of literacy tools for adolescent students. Teachers use the tools to help their students learn how to use a combination of literacy skills to retrieve, process, communicate, and retain content knowledge in any subject. Teachers choose from more than 80 tools to use prior to or during lessons to teach students how to: Gather facts and ideas from all types of sources of information; Take notes, make outlines, and create graphic organizers; Delineate main ideas and judge the relevancy of different sources; Communicate through written, spoken, and multimedia presentations.